Corn-planting attachment



(No Model.)

J. B. PEDRIGK.'

CORN PLANTING ATTACHMENT.

No. 356,290. Patented Jan. 18, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH E. PEDEIcK, 0E coLUMBIKIs, INDIANA.

CORN-PLANTING ATTACH MENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 356,290, dated January 18, 1887.

Application filed October 1, 1886.

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JOSEPH B. PEDEIck, a citizen of the United States, residing at Golumbus, in the county of- Bartholomew and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corn-Planter Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in an attachment to the furrow-runner of a cornplanter, for the purpose of scraping away the surface soil on each side of the furrow, for which Letters Patent No. 333,541'were issued to Ine January 5, 1886. Said attachment consists in a pair of diverging plates united at their forward ends and secured to the runner, and extending beyond the rear end thereof, so as to form a second furrow above and shallower and wider than the furrow in which the corn is to be dropped.

The object of mypresentimprovement is to provide improved Ineans for securing to the runner the plates which form the second furrow, and to arrange said plates in an improved manner relatively to the diverging rear ends ofthe furrow-runner, all as hereinafter fully described.

rlhe accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure l is a plan. Fig. 2 is aside elevation having one of the scraper-plates removed. Fig. 3 is a rear view at the line a a, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal section of the saddle to which the scraper-plates are removably secured. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the inner side of one of the scraper-plates. Fig. 6 is a View, from the opposite side, of a portion of the same plate, a part of the plate being broken away to show the inner edge of the bracket which engages the saddle.

A and B are a pair of thin flat plates of steel, each having secured to one side a catchplate, c, having a series of holes or notches, s, and a bracket, d, Fig. 5.

E is a casting forming a saddle, which is adapted to slip over and embrace the upper edge of the furrow-runner f, to which the sad# dle is secured by set-screws h h. On the for- Ward' end of the saddle E are formed, a pair of inwardly-turned arms, 't' t', and on the rear end area pair of eyes, jj. Hinged to eyes j j are Serial No. 215,049. (No model.)

a pair of brace-rods, k On the inner surface of the armsis provided a series of teeth,l

l, Fig. 4, and the inner surface of each of the brackets d carries corresponding teeth, m, Fig. 5 5 6, which are adapted to interlock with the teeth on the arms The scraper-plates A and B are attached to the furrow-runner as follows: Saddle Eis first placed in position on the upper edge of the runner, and secured just forward of the forked portion n of the runner by the setscrews h h. One of the plates is then placed with its forward end close against one side of the runner, as at p, Fig. l, with its lower edge at a suitable distance above thelower edge of the runner. The rear end of the plate is then pushed outward until the bracket d engages the arm t' and the teeth Zand m are interlocked. The rear-'end of the plate is then forcibly sprung 7o slightly outward, and there secured by inserting thefree end of the brace-rod k in one of the series of notches in the catch-plate c, thus clamping the forward end of the plate strongly against the runner. The other plate is secured in the same manner. By this construction the scraper plates may be quickly attached or detached and adjusted at any required height Without the use of wrenches or other tools, the saddle being designed to remain on the furrow-runner at all times.

It has been foundthat better results accrue by forming the surface furrow before the narrower furrow in which the corn is to be dropped, and I therefore arrange the plates A and B forward of-the forked end of the furrow-runner, instead of placing them farther back, 'as in my former patent, above mentioned.

I claim as my invention- The abovedescribed cornplanter attachment, consisting of the saddle having arms iz', the plates A and B, each provided with a bracket, d, and catch-plate c, and the bracerods k la, all combined and arranged to co-opcrate with each other, and withthe furrowrunner of a corn planter, substantially as specified.

JOSEPH B. PEDRICK. Witnesses:

NEWTON C. SPURGIN, WASHINGTON M. GARRETTsoN.. 

